mortars and amalgamated with the gold in the ore. The stamps were periodically stopped and the amalgam was retrieved and then sold to banks or the mint.; The interior of a stamp mill, possibly the Iron City Stamp Mill in Blackhawk, Colorado, shows...

Photograph of a young child at Teller Elementary School in Denver, Colorado during a defense stamp project. A young girl is licking the back of a stamp to be placed in the United States Defense Stamp Album in her hand.

The Nebraska registration cards are on 50 rolls of microfilm, Nebraska State Historical Society library microfilm catalog number RG0544.PR. They are arranged alphabetically by county or city. Within the county or city, names are listed usually...

A man wearing a suit leans against a wood post inside a stamp mill, possibly the Buell Consolidated Gold Mining & Milling Company in Mountain City on the outskirts of Central City in Gilpin County, Colorado. A small group of men stands behind him...

Several unidentified men stand outside the Iron City Stamp Mill in Blackhawk, a mining town in Gilpin County, Colorado. The tracks of the Gilpin Tramway, which was used to haul ore from nearby mines to the depot in Blackhawk, cross the foreground....

Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody) rides at the head of a group of Native American (Sioux) men on horseback as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The Sioux men hold staffs decorated with feathers and wear moccasins, beaded leggings, and feather...

Large piles of wood are stacked at the side of the Perigo Mill in Gilpin County, Colorado. The mill has several levels, and two large smokestacks supported by wires protrude from the roof. Several smaller smokestacks also protrude from the roof. A...

Little Eagle, Native American Dakota Sioux man poses in front of a tepee. He wears a shirt and vest with fabric wrapped around his waist and over one shoulder, leggings, a bear claw necklace, and a feather in his hair.

A man stands on the hill overlooking "Custer's Last Stand," the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, southeast of the Crow Agency, Montana. Tombstones mark the graves of troops of Lt. Col. George A. Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry who fought Native...

View looking north, of Silver Plume, Colorado; shows the central business district, the lower slope of Republican Mountain, and silver mines including: the Diamond Tunnel, the Baxter, and the Payrock. The access road cuts across the entire image.

Studio portrait (sitting) of Judge Klah, a Native American (Navajo) Judge or Justice of the Peace. He poses with his two wives on, and in front of, Navajo woven blankets. The women wear machine made blankets and heishi bead necklaces. Judge Klah,...

View east down Main Street (Colorado Avenue) Telluride, Colorado, with light snow on Ajax, Telluride and Ingram Peaks in background. New Sheridan Hotel is on corner with electric bulb theater sign and kiosk with poster advertising "7th Heaven."...

View southeast of Telluride, Colorado, with San Juans and cliffs in background; shows predominately wood frame vernacular structures, houses, barns and sheds. Larger brick and stone buildings include old school with hipped roof, San Miguel County...

Studio portrait (seated) of Daniel C. Oakes, Colorado lumber merchant, Ute Indian Agent, and U.S. Land Surveyor. Oakes wears a sack jacket with wide lapels, and a striped vest. He has a full beard, mustache and his hair is parted with a wave in...

View in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking north at the Navajo Soda Spring and Cliff House Hotel. Men and women are gathered around the Navajo Spring stone ring. The Fountain Creek bridge is to the right, and directly behind the group is the...

View of a collapsed frame, probably one-story house, in Woodstock near Pitkin (Gunnison County), Colorado west of Alpine Pass. A wooden plank supports an unstable wall. A brick chimney, wooden shingles, and rafters are in the debris pile of the...

A Native American (Sioux) man and woman pose outdoors at the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. The man wears traditional clothes that include a feather headdress, beaded moccasins and leggings, and a necklace made of teeth. The woman wears...

This early view of a busy dirt Chestnut Street in Leadville, Colorado includes horse drawn carriages, wagons loaded with goods, horses in the street, pedestrians on the boardwalks, and telephone or telegraph poles with handbills on the left. A two...